Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.